skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The failure (our failure) to make the ideals and ideas of freedom in the digital age accessible and present in politics is a disaster. FOSS ideas, open culture ideas. What the world wide web actual is... It's not even that they disagree, they aren't even aware.

We spent decades fiddling arguments with one another while events just took their course. Politicians don't understand or care about any of these ideas. The public doesn't either. When "something must be done" about this or that... because digital culture progresses to some point, the deep well of ideas that dominated web culture have zero impact.

Ultimately, the encryption argument is being had between spooks and tech monopolies. Politicians are bystanders. There is no "freedom of speech" equivalent, no idea of the current technological age to guide them. No flag for the public to rally to.

The right to privacy is great, but we can't just keep arguing by analogy. We need modern age thinking to define this for modern circumstances.
Is it possible to "archive" and then "unarchive" a Github repo using the Github API?

If so, one possible solution is to maintain the primary repo elsewhere (Source Hut, Gitlab. wherever), and run a sync routine on a cron (or perhaps every push):

1. unarchive Github mirror repo

2. Push changes from primary repo to Github mirror

3. archive Github mirror repo

There's a race condition where someone might see the unarchived repo and start a pull request during the brief period where the sync is taking place, but the possibility that they'd both start and then fisish a pull request during sync periods seems remote.
> Glamorous Toolkit is implemented in Pharo, but it's made to work for many languages.

Ooooh, now I am interested. I really enjoyed exploring Pharo but couldn't combine it with work. But getting to play with Pharo for a work-environment while still being able to do my day job sounds very appealing
It's not only that - the current price of AMC, GME, etc... are being manipulated artificially.

This is text-book illegal activity.

There is no logical derivation of GameStop's financial books that would warrant the kind of stock price it has.

It is very very clearly market manipulation, and these exact sorts of manipulations are commonly prosecuted.
> what prevented the first responder from breaking a window?

First responders werent paramedics or firefighters. You'd expect a random bystander to risk their life breaking into a flaming car?
If you look at giving away stuff as a transaction, it might make more sense.

You get to feel better about not creating waste and helping someone else -- if that was worth nothing to you, you'd throw it away. They get a calculator at the expense of having to deal with a human, coordinate details and potentially troubleshoot a device that may not be in perfect condition. In that sense you've reached a market price for the transaction. The person on the other end is just trying to negotiate a better deal for themselves after you thought the agreement was already done. Being aggressive can be very effective because avoiding conflict is also pretty valuable for a lot of people.

The fundamental issue seems twofold:

1) that a more fragmented society results in more transactional thinking versus feeling like we're all on the same team.

2) we're in an increasingly disposable society where the cost of second hand goods can be higher than new items, depending on how valuable your time is (again, if the calculator malfunctioned they might spend a few hours troubleshooting at greater opportunity cost than the price of a new one).
There's not any real reason to be concerned about this. Not yet, at least.

Furthermore, this comment is offensive. Let's please not pretend that Facebook and Twitter were "looking for an excuse" before deplatforming Trump. They were entirely justified and would have been justified in doing so many years before they eventually did so.

Let's also not put the word "incite" in dick quotes barely three weeks after an insurrection and attempted coup. There was actual incitement of violence in that case.
What research? He cherry picks one popular channel on youtube which gets dislike bombed and presents it as a conspiracy. You are spreading FUD this is no research this is just pseudo science with an agenda.
Brain interfaces will create games 'superior' to reality 'fairly quickly'
Payment for order flow falls under "rebates from market makers and trading venues."

https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/stock-order-rou...
The World of Computer System Video Gaming, High-Stakes and Extreme Competitors
what losses can you prove? It's not like you were blocked from selling at the high, the high was blocked from being reached. And this applies whether you have a rh account or not.
I highly recommend reading the actual resolution at [0]. It is short and clearly written, a pdf of a few pages.

As Protonmail admits, "it's not explicitly stated in the resolution" that it "seek[s] to allow law enforcement access to encrypted platforms via backdoors". Protonmail argues, however, that this "is widely understood" to be its aim.

I am disappointed that Protonmail provides no evidence that this is really the underlying purpose of the resolution. (They do point out that previous proposals did contain such wording, but this in my view is insufficient - the explicit removal of such words can be called progress, after all!)

So what am I missing? Can someone here maybe provide evidence that this is really the actual intent of the resolution?

[0] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020...
Might be a nice fit indeed. I considered doing this on my Remarkable 2, but it's a bit tricky to combine a dashboard with actually using the product as it's intended (for note-taking, in this case).

The advantage of using a Kindle like this is that it's cheap enough that I don't have to use it for anything else. I bought the Kindle used for €25.
I think you're entirely right, but Citadel is the customer Robinhood is protecting. The retail investors are the product.
Show HN: Revue newsletter → Twitter thread in secs
> it's far less welcoming

Oh please, only somebody with a ridiculously thin skin would be offended by seeing rejected his PR to a project that clearly states that does not welcome outside contributions.
It could also be RobinHood trying to avoid their traders bankrupting and killing themselves by restricting them from buying gamestop etc. shares at 10x what they are worth.
FWIW, that quote isn't from Socrates https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
they just restricted buying for it across the board. wow lol
I’ve always thought that if the Revolution happened today, you’d have big media corporations like The NY Times writing hit pieces on George Washington everyday.
What? RH enforces the PDT rule, as does every other US broker. SEC is not looking the other way there at all.
>this is not spam.

Dislikes are there to help human users of Youtube (and the AI recommender systems of Google) not to be some sort of god given metric of anything. Spam is anything which makes dislikes less useful as metric for those things. Users who dislike everything aren't a useful metric.

>Also how you think youtube knows which dislikes are driven by 'social media post' ?

A sudden jump in dislikes with a referal tag of <insert social media>. Probably mixed with their knowledge of those user's other Youtube browsing behaviors. And Google's absurd knowledge of your internet browsing behaviors via its massive analytics network. I'm sure there's whole teams doing nothing but this at Youtube and I suspect they have very sophisticated methods at this point.
ok fine but there are other brokers..
But what would someone get out of paying ppl to dislike whitehouse videos ?
Class action lawsuit, incoming. WE LIKE THE STOCK.
Sure they can. But coordinating multiple people to do that is a classic pump and dump, and is explicitly illegal.
Sadly it's more than today's population. Take for instance Wickard v. Filburn (1942), a law was upheld that prevented farmers from growing food in order to prop up food prices. An Ohio farmer was forbidden to grow wheat to feed his own livestock, not even sell it.

> An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The US government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce (described in the Constitution as "Commerce... among the several states"). The Supreme Court disagreed: "Whether the subject of the regulation in question was 'production', 'consumption', or 'marketing' is, therefore, not material for purposes of deciding the question of federal power before us.... But even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect.'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
I worry about this with the trend of using more laminated glass that is really difficult to break.

But this Model S is very unlikely to have had that, and it sounds like there was a policeman on the scene. Surely the officer would have access to something that he could have used to break the glass? I've read a few articles about this lawsuit and I have yet to see a clear answer as to why that wasn't the solution.

It makes me wonder if the "doors wouldn't open" part is just a spurious claim and the lawsuit is really about the post-crash fire.
> This sort of stuff will put people more and more on edge, there is the deplatforming going on, people asserted their power financially, and now getting that removed too

Don't compare deplatforming and this.

Deplatforming is akin to throwing a customer out of the grocery store for doing nazi salutes in the vegetable aisle.

What Robinhood is doing is akin to throwing a customer out of the grocery store because you don't agree with his choice of vegetables.
The theory is that Discord’s investors are putting pressure on them to shutdown the wild & crazy investment decisions they don’t like. It’s hard to say what is actually happening.
Ask HN: Marketwatch Site Down for Anyone? [the stock prices bit]
UK here (well, Wales). I use marketwatch to look at prices using https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/xxx

where xxx is the ticker.

It was working fine until about 10 mins ago, but now I get either 504 Gateway Time-out (nginx) or I get 500 page error (from Marketwatch).

Anyone else having problems?

Edit to add: the news bits of the site are still working for me.
Lol you're reaching. This is not the issue that divides us. Rather, we enjoy seeing winners and losers in the market.
> But what would someone get out of paying ppl to dislike whitehouse videos ?

Propaganda.
Suuuuuuuuure
My friend radicalized. This made me rethink how I build AI
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When running from a browser, Chrome specially lowers the framerate and prefers higher resolution. Not sure we can tune it for high fps.
How long before r/WSB turns into r/LateStageCapitalism?
My Iron Arachne projects are open source and closed to contributions.

They're closed to contributions because they're my personal projects. They serve a very specific purpose - my playground, my mental space.

But they're open source, because if others are curious about how they were built, I don't mind if they want to see the source.
The price of GME is due to a squeeze. The shorts have to get out. People know this. They are refusing to sell. Manipulation but legal.
This is a great decision by the author, and the way he states it makes it socially acceptable in the current climate, where hordes of entitled and clueless people have the upper hand over the experienced and productive classes.

The latter part is the real reason why people burn out;it wasn't that much of an issue when you could just tell people to stop bothering you with unimportant issues.

These days it is like walking around in a train station where random people can ask you to carry their suitcases. If you don't politely oblige, they shout "privilege" and report you to the station's political officer.
This is a twitter post of a screenshot. There's almost no substance here. We don't know why or even if this happened. So the immediate leap to talk of violence as a reaction is incendiary.
New Tesla design released with new displays, square steering wheel, no stalks
Duncan makes it extremely clear the pressure came from the bread riots which were certainly not elite.
Did you know in your boot (trunk?) if you have one there is a mechanical lever you can pull to escape that works at all times (car off, no battery, locked, etc.) Maybe by the bonnet (hood?) release catch there could be a similar 'unlock and open everything lever' for emergencies.
The Federal Government does not have any restrictions on rainwater harvesting. Some states have minor regulations in terms of the amount of rainwater collecting and the means by which it is collected, but most states allow their citizens to collect rainwater while others even encourage it.

https://worldwaterreserve.com/rainwater-harvesting/is-it-ill...
The link to the Wikipedia article explicitly mentions that is was originally designed to just coop up a crowd for several hours so that they get bored and the situation de-escalates. This was seen as a more effective and humane tactic than dispersing rioting crowds using fear by doing police charges. That said, 1990s era European protests (when the theory behind kettling was developed) were rather less violent than current day American protests, helped in no small part of course by the relative prevalence of firearms in American society and their higher distrust of police forces (again, compared to Europeans. Atm distrust between police and protesters in the USA seems to be in a vicious downward spiral where the actions of both group confirm the prejudices of the other group)
For a project where a sole primary maintainer is the only option, this makes perfect sense.

For long-term viability of a popular project, I think you'll eventually need more maintainers, which brings back most of the problems of having multiple contributors.
WallStreetBets vs WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore
>> of a stat that frankly doesn’t really matter if you’re an account like the White House.

I don't agree. I think these numbers matter more than we realize. I believe that many politicians today are using Twitter/Youtube/Facebook likes as modern Gallup polls. Manipulation of the numbers could result in actual policy changes.

Say there is a video about net neutrality, or the breakup of the social media giants. I honestly think all sorts of people in government will be looking to the popularly, or lack thereof, as a gauge of public support for the content of the video. So, imho, manipulation of likes/dislikes is becoming very serious.
No, that is absolutely not market manipulation. That is the market working exactly as designed.
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how about for paying gold customers who specifically want to engage int PM/AH trading? i know robinhood isn't a pro level platform but come on, this feels exactly like blatant manipulation.
> What do other people do in those situations

One thing that I've tried (to varying levels of success) is to use that time writing unit tests. It's visibly productive, nominally helpful, and incredibly useful in picking apart what's actually going on under the hood. The two biggest challenges I run into are managers (including engineering managers) who insist that unit tests are a waste of time and codebases that retard attempts to break things down to workable units.
100k for a car, but no 5 dollars for a window hammer/seat belt cutter.
Let's all pretend to have the same opinion and believe in the narrative.

Why exactly, again?
Isn't this a bad business move? Doesn't RH want its users to engage with them? Or are they calculating that this sort of mass-coordination on their app will lead to regulations and censures against them?
The main reason is that it takes a lot of time and energy to review pull requests—especially for this kind of software. For example, I have a server that continuously runs Litestream on a database that's constantly producing load. Every time I make a change in how Litestream works, I create and push up a new build to that server and run it for at least 24 hours. After that, I review metrics about performance and throughput and go through the logs to check for any abnormalities. Finally, I have a separate runbook that I go through for manual testing every CLI command and their various options. It's a slow process but it helps catch weird bugs that aren't apparent from automated testing.

As for the license, yes, the PR author agrees with the license but it makes it harder in the future to change the license and then I need to maintain a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) which is more work. I don't have any plans to change the license but I also don't know if that will change in the future.
I'm not defending shenanigans.

I'm saying populist shenanigans don't really defeat banker shenanigans.
I always thought BTC and blockchain stuff had no utilitized value, so I never really took it seriously.

Today I started to take it seriously.
Clickbait. They're reducing the (risky) leverage. "A Schwab spokeswoman said that the platform changed its margin requirements, limiting how much an investor can borrow, on Jan. 13 and said it has placed “restrictions in place on certain transactions in GME and other securities"
That would make sense if communities are indeed isolated and want to stay as such. To continue with our little analogy: while Tuscany (and a few other places) have this peculiar cultural trait, it's as still home for a lot of people who don't recognize themselves in that and they also belong there and need to be respected. Very often that's even the numeric majority of people.

"my grandfather and my father and I all cursed God for breakfast for three generations and now I suddenly have to talk like what this pope-kissing bigots want me to?" ignores that there are pope-kissing bigots in your society, your neighbor may be one, your friendly policemen may be well one, the old man across the street.

But also, there are people who are not pope-kissing bigots and YET behave themselves in a way to not saw division. Your children's school teacher may be one, perhaps cursing in the privacy of her home but giving you a look you if your children talk like little fallen angels.

We're all used to norms. I don't think that's the root cause of us having this conversation in the first place.

There is a group of people who is feeling their position in society has changed under their feet and they are frustrated about that. For them these topics become an identity-glue, something to hold on and to tell their ingroup from outgroups.

But there are also people who just don't like norms and just by coincidence happen to be aligned with whoever is the norm-breaker du jour.
Ok, a bit of a hijack here but it's looking like encryption is going to be backdoored! All govs seem to be gunning for it.

So, what is the solution? Having my own public/private keys that I sign everything with?
Why would I end up in jail? Freedom of speech.

My mentally ill brother-in-law and his militia may go to jail, but by then it will be way too late for you.
What will happen to GameStop Real-time Price
Reading code is harder than writing code. It is also not very fun. So when someone files a PR against your project, it means a bunch of not-very-fun effort. It also comes with a social obligation, because someone presumably put a lot of effort into the PR and you don't want to have wasted their time. Obligation + not fun work on a side project that you're probably doing to help stave off burnout turns that project into just another source of burnout. Project management in general just isn't very fun.

If you feel a large degree of ownership over the codebase, you'll also be irritated at including someone else's code/design style. Like having someone else's voice in your head. You could go through the PR and request changes to conform to your code/design preferences, but that would take a lot of your time and also a lot of the contributor's time (and be very likely to frustrate the contributor). It would probably just be easier to rewrite it yourself in your own style. Or just let all that stuff slide. But then your project is less "your" project, and you might not get the same sense of gratification working in the codebase.
Which is why I find the story about Postmates and its efforts to avoid mass arbitration very funny.
I never understood the legal issues there. Contributor License Agreements exist to solve that very problem. Want to make all contributions that are merged back into the project count as your own? No problem, simply put it in a CLA and make all PR authors sign it. If you get a takedown notice because the author of the PR actually included code they didn't write? You have a binding agreement from them, claiming that they had the right to sign over the code. You remove the code and move on with your life while they get prosecuted directly. It's like buying something at a pawn shop that turns out to have been stolen - you aren't responsible and if they did everything right, neither is the pawn shop.
I'm curious about your approach to making UIs. Are there any libraries you do use?

Do you use anything to render your view or do you construct the nodes and insert them into the DOM directly?

Is your centrally available object an instance of a class or is it a plain JavaScript object?

Does it manage the state for all your UI or is it segmented in some way?

How do you drive changes to your UI? Is there an imperative process that renders the UI when you know the data model has changed or is your state object an observable or something that your views subscribe to?
Yes. Normal humans have empathy.
Colored tabs are such an underrated feature. I loved them on OS/2.
There's nothing mechanically wrong with short interest being over 100%. It just means that some shares will have to change hands more than once to close the shorts. This is a very widespread misunderstanding.
Ah yes, speculate, and then be outraged from your own unfounded, evidence-less, conclusions... should we storm the Capitol next, because we are dead certain the election was stolen?
I think it's important to put this in the context of many other related issues/pressures:

* Increasing wealth inequality for several decades now

* older generations holding onto more wealth and power in society than ever before - with a large share of their wealth in the stock market

* Wall Street is seen as entirely unaccountable due to 2008 bailout

* Pandemic this year has basically been a huge wealth transfer from normal people and small businesses towards large conglomerates and the wall street hedge funds who back them

* Institutional trust is at historic lows, while online spaces become more and more regulated by those same institutions

So maybe GME stock is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but it seems like all of this has to reach a boiling point eventually. I'm not sure what that will look like, but violence wouldn't be surprising.
So is schwab.
Exactly. You can't negotiate with a mob. You can negotiate with individuals in the mob, but that is pointless because when you make concessions / compromises, the rest of the mob just smells blood.
> who will allege that the brokers knew they were facilitating intentional financial harm

Is it possible to make such an allegation in a way that doesn't also plausibly describe parts of the everyday behavior of a hedge fund?
This is sad indeed :(